Should This Be a Newsletter? After nearly a month of badly needed vacation, a boy’s mind turns to his blog and what to do about it. Readers may scroll down and notice a couple abortive attempts at weekly posts this winter before life got in the way. This blog has existed since 2004. I started …
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3 June 2023: We apologize for the interruption
I’d been noticing that a subset of the substack crew would use their weekly social media posts as the basis for blogging. That sounded nice. I missed blogging! Then I went on vacation, came back and the semester turned into a sprint, and I stopped posting much on social media. So I guess I’ll just …
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3 Feb 2023
Let’s get back to it. There’s catching up to do but in the meantime, I invite you to join me in the middle. Here are some thoughts from the past week. Reproducibility As part of my Interfaces seminar this term, I am having students do their projects around a process I called “hermeneutic reverse-engineering” (this …
…and we’re back…
So that whole social media “platform” this was an interesting ride, wasn’t it? Turns out, nothing is ever free, the new captains of industry are as selfish and narrow minded as the old ones, and we are just the product. Oh wait, we knew that already: I submit that the materialist answer to the question — What …
Crickets….
This place sure has been quiet. But I’m missing the long form randomness of writing. So some cleanup will ensue, followed by updates….
…and we’re back!
I’ve been neglecting the blog for over a year now, but it’s time to dust off the cobwebs and get things started again. In recent years, I’ve posted more “least bloggable units” directly on my Facebook status. It seemed I got faster and more satisfying response, but this is a problem for several reasons: 1. …
one reason I was away for so long–I got hacked
PS –As to the neglect of the blog, that’s a whole other story, but one of the big issues was that my site got hacked some time ago. On the advice of my ISP, I hired sitelock.com to fix it, they made a much bigger mess than they started with, and eventually I had to …
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